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Lucky Leprechaun Lunch

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Ages 6 and Up

Duration: Under One Hour

They say that 'Everyone is Irish on St. Patrick's Day', so pack your child a St Patrick's Day lunch filled with food to celebrate the day!

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WHAT YOU NEED

Gold 8 inch by 10 inch two handled gift bag (available at greeting card or craft stores)
1 sheet of green card stock
Gold puffy paint
Glue stick
Narrow green ribbon (2 feet)
1 St. Patrick's Day lunch (see below)
1 Leprechaun's Surprise (see below)

HOW TO DO IT

Print out shamrock diagram onto green card stock, cut out.
With a glue stick, glue the shamrock onto the front of the gold bag.
Paint your child's name to the front of the shamrock with gold puffy fabric paint.
Tie the bag closed with a green ribbon.
Fill the decorated bag with a St. Patrick's Day Lunch. For example:
- A Shamrock shaped sandwich (use a shamrock cookie cutter)
- Green celery sticks, green apple wedges and green olives.
- Leprechaun's Surprise (see below)

Leprechaun's Surprise

WHAT YOU NEED

Recipe for Chocolate Chip Shamrocks
1 - green #1 lunch pack paper bag (3 1/2 by 6 3/4 inches)
12 inch length of narrow gold ribbon
1 unlined index card
1 green ink pen

HOW TO DO IT

Place several Chocolate Chip Shamrocks into the small green bag.
On an unlined index card, or other small sheet of paper, write a limerick* from the Leprechaun to your child. For Example:
   A Leprechaun leaves you this treat
   That he thinks is awfully neat!
   It's an Irish surprise
   From that sneaky green guy
   That is Wonderful, and hard to beat!
Place the limerick inside the bag with the Shamrocks.
Tie the filled bag with narrow gold ribbon and tuck inside your child's Lucky Leprechaun Lunch.

limerick (lim'ur•ik),
(noun)
A kind of humorous poem in which lines one, two and five rhyme, and lines three and four form a rhymed couplet.
[1895-1900; Limerick, Ireland]
Random House Websters College Dictionary Copyright 1997
by Random House, Inc. All rights reserved.

FOLLOW UP FUN

Check out a book on Irish Limericks from the library to share with your children on St. Patrick's Day.
Help your children write their own limericks. Everyone can read the limerick that they've written at the dinner table on St. Patrick's Day.

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